Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show.

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  There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.

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  There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business.

• Ethel Waters:

  The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance

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  The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when

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  Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy,

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  Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun

• Ethel Waters:

  No one in the world can beat Ella Fitzgerald as a riff singer.

• Ethel Waters:

  New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever

• Ethel Waters:

  Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.